Michael Rafferty

When Ontario Superior Court Judge Thomas Heeney blew a gasket in his London, Ont., court this week, on the final day of the trial of Michael Rafferty, it properly got less attention than it might have ordinarily

Even in a world where victimhood is regarded as akin to a universal right, where people claim trauma at the death of a stranger or a celebrity or even a cross word, there is no mistaking the real deal. It was this broken family, this sweet teenage boy with the glasses, this collective obliterated faith […]

Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty met in a chance encounter on Feb. 4, 2009, at a pizza shop in Woodstock, Ont., and two months later they teamed up to abduct, sexually assault and murder eight-year-old Victoria Stafford.

As news of Michael Rafferty’s conviction rippled through the city of roughly 40,000, Mayor Pat Sobeski said Friday’s verdict marked the first glimmer of hope for a community buried “under a cloud” of grief since Tori disappeared three years ago